Make sentences out of the following, using either the Simple Past

Make sentences out of the following, using either the Simple Past Tense or the Past Progressive Tense.
1. When we got off the train it (rain) heavily.
2. The summer of that year was cold. It often (rain).
3. The weather was foggy. Cars and buses (move) slowly.
4. While I (pack) my things, he (ring) up for a taxi to take me to the station.
5. The house was quiet. The boys (play) chess and Mary (read) a book.
6. When you (see) him last?
7.I (buy) this guide book in London.
8. In 1990 he (be) in Siberia with a group of volunteers. They (make trails) in one of the national parks there.
9. Who (speak) over the phone at five o'clock yesterday. I couldn't get through for an hour.
10. The whole family (watch) a detective film on TV when I (come) home.
11.I (look) into the window and (see) an old woman (sit) by it. The picture (take) me back to my childhood.
12. Ships (travel) from Southampton to New York in four or five days in those times.
13. I (call) the dog but it would not come. It (dig) something at the far end of the garden.
14. It was hot and stuffy. I (drive) to my parents' house. I (turn) oh air-conditioningbut it not (work).
15. When I (go) down the library steps I (see) that my friends wait for me across the street.